Berlin, Germany – January 1, 2019 – The psycho-sexual fantasy thriller 8 REMAINS is now also available on VOD via Amazon Prime.
“The production was so intense, that we had to split principal photography into two shooting blocks. I’m thrilled and really proud, that we managed to finish 8 Remains and can now present it to the world”, says Juliane Block, director and producer of 8 Remains. On November 23rd 2018 the film premiered theatrically in Los Angeles. The German premiere followed on November 24th. Shortly after, the movie was then released on Amazon Prime in all English speaking territories globally and Germany.
8 REMAINS, written by best-selling author Laura Sommer, tells the story of young and beautiful Talli (Maja-Celiné Probst). Seconds before her untimely death caused by her lover and killer Damian (Gregory B. Waldis), she finds herself trapped in a mirror world, where she has to re-live her past. Slowly, Talli is able to fight her fear and realizes her chance: she has to face her own daemons in order to fight her killer, and ultimately prevent her death. “This was the most intense work I’ve ever done in front of the camera”, says lead actress Maja-Celiné Probst. “Now I know what it means to let yourself go, emotionally speaking.”
Director / producer Juliane Block grew up in Northern Germany and although she obtained a Masters in Design, an early fascination with make-up and prosthetics led her to experiment with making zombie masks. When she got an opportunity to work on Timo Rose’s underground zombie feature MUTATION (1999), her fate was sealed.
After spending six years in Asia, in which time she made nine shorts and the feature films EMPEROR and mockumentary KINKS (2011), (‘Best Asian Comedy’ winner at Australia’s Colortape Film Festival), she returned to Germany to get involved in the multi-director project TRAIN STATION (2015) a CollabFeature project which went on to win eight awards, including ‘Best Feature’ at the Los Angeles Diversity Festival and ‘Best Feature’ at the Kansas International Film Festival in 2016, as well as the Special Jury Award at the Film Fest Kosova.
8 REMAINS is the first in a row of movies, in which Block returns to her genre roots. The thriller 3 LIVES will be released early 2019, and in February / March 2019 Block will shoot a horror Zombie shocker with the working title “The Dead of the World.”
8 REMAINS is available on Amazon Prime:
Germany: http://bit.ly/8remains_d
Other Engl. Territories: http://bit.ly/8remains_en
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